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Please Note: Spotify deletes many of our Buddhist Chanting podcasts, claiming that they are 'Music', and that pure music tracks may not be uploaded to Spotify Podcasts. Personally, I disagree that our chanting constitutes 'Music', but there's not much point trying to argue with a bot.
Therefore, I have included a spoken introduction, to make it not exclusively 'music'. Similarly, after the paritta, I have added Luang Por Liem's advice to us while writing a short dedication on a copper sheet to enshrine in our stupa. Hope this helps that Spoti will not delete this episode.
The Sima Estalishment Ceremony at Bodhisaddha Monastery, Sydney, was the largest congregation of Bhikkhus in the Theravada tradtion in Australia ever. 40 of the monks had more than 40 rains retreats (years as monks). All 80+ together had spent more than 2,500 years in the robes.
You can hear the sonorous, full sound of this large sangha chanting clearly on the recording.
Luang Por Liem, the abbot of Wat Nong Pah Pong (Ajahn Chah's monastery) and leading monk of the whole lineage of Ajahn Chah, was the presiding senior monk at the Paritta Chanting
Ajahn Varadhammo, abbot of Bodhisaddha Monastery, was the host of the whole event, supporter by his own teacher, Luang Por Anan, the abbot of Wat Marp Jan and one of the most highly respected meditation masters in Thailand.
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We live in a world dominated by screens: Mobile Cell Phones, Tablets, Laptops, TV... When we look at these screens, our mind gets 'sucked in' and flows out into the www = "The Worldwide Net of Māra".
Our awareness disconnects form our physical body and gets lost in an external virtual dimension of images, videos, concepts and proliferations.
It's so important to bring awareness back into our physical body.
In this guided meditation, Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to re-establish body awareness.
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We can be so fussy about our carpet and all kinds of things we protect from dirt and clean immediately if anything spoils them.
But why are we not even more concerned if we notice any impurity in our mind?
Why don't we immediately apply the Buddha's Dhamma as a cleansing agent whenever unwholesome emotions arise?
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Asking Forgiveness from Triple Gem.
Pouring Rinsing Water on Buddha statue and Monks hands as a sign of respect, gratitude and affection on New Year's Day in Sri Lankan, Thai, Myanmar, Cambodian & Lao traditin (13 April).
Ajahn Dhammasiha guides community through ceremony, and provides explanations of the deeper meaning of our ritual.
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Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a question posed by the audience:
How to deal with dukkha and let it go?
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With Thai, Sri Lankan & Myanmar New Year coming up, including the ceremony of pouring water on Buddha statues and on the monks' hands, Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about the symbolism of this ritual:
Just as we use water to clean our bodies, so the Buddha has given us the Dhamma as a purifying agent for our mind.
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During his visit to Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Australia, Ajahn Karuniko joined our silent afternoon meditation. After the walking meditation, he opened up for a Q&A session, as it was the last opportunity to receive any Dhamma from him, before his departure next day.
The first question is about the 5 Spiritual Faculties, and how they relate to developing the Noble 8-Fold Path.
Ajahn Karuniko was born in Greater Manchester, UK in 1953. After graduating in Electronic Engineering in 1975 he worked for several years before coming to take up residence as a novice at Cittaviveka in 1982.
He became a bhikkhu in 1984 at Cittaviveka with Ajahn Sumedho as his preceptor. He has also spent 3 years with Luang Por Anan at Wat Marp Jan in Tailand. From 2014 until 2019 Ajahn Karuniko served as the abbot of Cittaviveka.
Ajahn Moneyyo lived for several years with Ajahn Karuniko at Cittaviveka. He is looking forward to welcoming an old friend, who has been his 'Reciting Teacher' ('Kammavācariya') during his ordination as a monk, and who remained a senior 'Kalyāṇa Mitta' (Dhamma Friend) to him in his junior years as a bhikkhu.
Cittaviveka is the first monastery of the tradition of Ajahn Chah outside of Thailand. Ajahn Chah has personally visited the property, and provided guidance and encouragement to Ajahn Sumedho during the very difficult foundation and renovation period.
You can learn more about Chithurst Monastery here:
https://www.cittaviveka.org
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During his visit to Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Australia, Ajahn Karuniko gave a special blessing to the small Buddha statues that we will enshrine in the upper circular niches of our Saddhamma Cetiya. He also encouraged us to use our stupa to focus our faith and gain inspiration to practise Dhamma.
Ajahn Karuniko was born in Greater Manchester, UK in 1953. After graduating in Electronic Engineering in 1975 he worked for several years before coming to take up residence as a novice at Cittaviveka in 1982.
He became a bhikkhu in 1984 at Cittaviveka with Ajahn Sumedho as his preceptor. He has also spent 3 years with Luang Por Anan at Wat Marp Jan in Tailand. From 2014 until 2019 Ajahn Karuniko served as the abbot of Cittaviveka.
Ajahn Moneyyo lived for several years with Ajahn Karuniko at Cittaviveka. He is looking forward to welcoming an old friend, who has been his 'Reciting Teacher' ('Kammavācariya') during his ordination as a monk, and who remained a senior 'Kalyāṇa Mitta' (Dhamma Friend) to him in his junior years as a bhikkhu.
Cittaviveka is the first monastery of the tradition of Ajahn Chah outside of Thailand. Ajahn Chah has personally visited the property, and provided guidance and encouragement to Ajahn Sumedho during the very difficult foundation and renovation period.
You can learn more about Chithurst Monastery here:
https://www.cittaviveka.org
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There are different kinds of happiness, and we have to learn to mindfully distinguish them.
Some kinds of joy we do not indulge in, like partying with alcohol & drugs; or hurting others as revenge for what they did to us.
Other kinds of happiness we deliberately develop, like helping other beings, sharing, generosity, keeping ethical standards, calm & peace, and in particular the blissful joy we can experience in meditation.
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As followers of the Buddha, are we devoted to the persuit of pleasure?
Amazingly, and perhaps even counterintuitively, the answer is actually 'Yes"!
It's not every kind of pleasure, though: we're not persuing happiness based on sensual indulgence, or anything causing harm to other beings. We only persue wholesome, spiritual pleasure, like the happiness one gets from practising generosity and helping other beings;
or the blameless happiness and freedom from remorse one gains from keeping precepts;
or the unperturbed happiness one gains from restraining the doors of the senses;
and in particular the rapture and bliss one experiences in samādhi. Ajahn Dhammasiha quotes from:
Pāsādikasutta, Dīgha Nikāya/Long Discourses No29Cūḷadukkhakkhandhasutta, Majjima Nikāya/Middle Length Discourses No14Mahāsaccakasutta, Majjima Nikāya/Middle Length Discourses No36Dhammagiri Website
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Ajahn Dhammasiha reads out and discusses Anguttara Nikāya / Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, Book of Fours, No 21.
Shortly after his supreme awakening, the Buddha reflects that without anything to look up to and respect and revere, one dwells in suffering.
However, not finding any being in the whole universe that would exceed him in virtue, or samādhi, or wisdom, or release, the Buddha decides to respect, honour and esteem the Saddhamma that he discouvered.
Brahma Sahampati appears to confirm to the Buddha that actually all the Buddhas of the past did exactly the same thing, revering the Saddhamma, and all the Buddhas arising in the future will do likewise.
He then recites 3 verses expressing that reality, which the Buddha approves of.
We will install 4 bronze plaques on the four sides of our Saddhamma Stupa with the verses of Brahma Sahampati, extolling the Saddhamma and the importance of respecting and remembering it:
Ye ca atītā Sambuddhā
Ye ca Buddhā anāgatā
Yo c'etarahi Sambuddho
Bahūnaṃ sokanāsanoAll Buddhas of the distant past,
And all the Buddhas yet to come,
The Buddha of our present time,
Who freed so many from all grief;Sabbe saddhammagaruno
Vihaṃsu viharanti ca
Tathāpi viharissanti
Esā buddhāna dhammatā.They live, will live, have always lived
Revering the authentic truth,
The Dhamma that they realized -
This is the nature of Enlightened Ones.Tasmā hi attakāmena
Mahattamabhikaṅkhatā
Saddhammo garukātabbo
Saraṃ Buddhāna sāsanan'tiAnd thus, for your own happiness,
For your own lasting benefit,
Revere the truthful Dhamma here,
Remember what the Buddha taught!Dhammagiri Website
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Ajahn Dhammasiha explains the project to enshrine ultra-long lasting ceremic tablets into our Saddhamma Stupa, inscribed with the most essential suttas.
All practitioners of the Dhamma should have their own little anthology of suttas and verses that they really like, to learn by heart, to contemplate, to recite again and again, and to practise & realize.
Ajahn gives examples of uniquely profound suttas, and explains what makes them so outstanding.
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When we contemplate the 4 elements of earth, water, fire and wind, we need conviction that there exists an escape beyond these elements. Without that confidence, a complete materialist would feel very despondent when reflecting on the unreliable, unpredictable and uncontrollable nature of the elements.
However, if we have faith in the Buddha's teaching that one actually can go beyond, then through contemplation & insight into the elements, consciousness can completely let go and detach from them, and experience the liberated state beyond the material world, where no flood or cyclone or earthquake or fire could ever reach.
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With Cyclone Alfred and heavy flooding just having passed over Brisbane, Ajahn Dhammasiha offers reflections on the 4 elements (Cātu Mahābhūta/Dhātu).
As the cyclone showed, these 4 material elements of earth, water, fire and wind are unreliable, uncertain, unpredictable and lead to suffering.
Fortunately, we can free our mind from attachment to the 4 elements through contemplation and insight, to realize the state that is beyond reach of cyclones, floods or any form of suffering: Freedom, Release, Nibbāna.
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Equanimity, in Pali 'Upekkhā', means letting go of likes and dislikes. Neither aversion nor attraction. The mind is even, balanced, neither attached nor repulsed by whatever sense impressions impinge on us.
However, Ajahn Dhammasiha points out that we have to develop Equanimity based on wisdom, insight and understanding. There's a danger that we may mistake states of indifference, carlessness, or even subtle aversion for Upekkhā. That would be the "Equanimity" of the water buffalo, indifference based on ignorance. True equanimity arises from understanding sense impressions, and resulting feelings and emotions, as impermanent and not-self.
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Towards the end of the session, Ajahn Dhammasiha is passed a note with several existential questions:
How could I find meaning in life?Why am I not happy?How can I find inner peace?I can't find my way!Am I stupid?Ajahn tries to respond as succinct as possible within the remaining 15 minutes of the session.
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Our culture encourages activity, going out and doing something. We're constantly busy managing our lives, trying to control our environment, trying to influence the behaviour of other persons.
In this Dhamma talk, Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to give more attention to the quiet, passive quality of observing. Not interfering at all, but to mindfully know, to be aware of whatever is happening. In particular, to be aware of whatever is happening inside our mind.
And we specifically look at those aspects of conditioned reality the Buddha directed us towards:
Anicca = Impermanent/unreliable/not sure Dukkha = Suffering, unsatisfactory, unable to provide lasting happiness Anatta = Not Self, not me, not mineOnce we see with wisdom in our own direct experience ('vipassana') that all conditioned phenomena ('sankhārā') exhibit these three characteristics, our heart will let go of sankhāras, and experience the Unconditioned - Release, Peace, Freedom, Nibbāna.
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Ajahn Dhammasiha responds to a variety of questions from a student of University of Queensland, and from other members of the audience.
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The Buddha didn't realize awakening only for himself and was perfect in knowledge and conduct and developed supreme purity, compassion, wisdom and liberation but also had immeasurable compassion and an unique ability to teach and lead others to realize awakening themselves.
This made him "the unsurpassable teacher" (anuttaro purisadamma sārathi, lit.: "the unsurpassable trainer of trainable people), one of the unique qualities of the Buddha that we can recollect about him.
This Dhamma-Talk is a recollection of the Buddha as unsurpassable teacher:
0:00 Introduction
1:42 How does the Buddha teach and instruct? Where do his instructions lead?
8:54 What qualities made the Buddha the unsurpassable teacher?
33:32 How successful were the teaching efforts of the Buddha and what did he achieve by teaching?
49:54 The Buddha didn't just give people information but taught so that they get stirred up and inspired to practice his teaching
Just like the sun is not only bright and radiant only for itself, but also provides the energy for the entire ecosystem of the planet earth and all beings living on it - so too the Buddha didn't realize awakening just for his own benefit but illuminated the life of countless beings and lead them to liberation.
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The occasion of Māgha Pūjā commemorates the sponteneous gathering of 1,250 awakened disciples of the Buddha (Arahants) in the Veḷuvana Monastery (Bamboo Grove Monstery) in Rājagaha, and the teaching of the Ovādapātimokkha, a concise summary of the teaching of the Buddha in verse:
Abstain from any evil deed,
accomplish what is good and true,
And fully purify your mind -
That is what all the Buddhas teach.
Enduring patience is the best
of all ascetic practices;
The best of everything at all
is called Nibbāna by the sage.
If you cause harm to anyone
you can't be called a genuine monk!
Refrain from harming and abuse,
and strictly keep the Buddha's rules;
Be moderate when taking food,
and dwell alone in solitude
devoted to the Higher Mind -
That is what all the Buddhas teach.
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